The Indian Institute of Journalism and New Media (IIJNM) has announced plans to offer television journalism courses during the upcoming academic year. The institute says that TV journalism students will learn how to write and edit broadcast news as reporters, editors and producers. They will also learn to use the latest TV production equipment in hands-on classroom exercises. New courses added to...
RSF has condemned the 29 June 2004 attack by militant Hindu nationalists of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on the offices of the daily "Mahanagar" in Mumbai (formerly Bombay). During the raid, the BJP militants assaulted three journalists and ransacked the premises. Journalists Yuvraj Mohite, Jayesh Shirsat and Vaishali Rode were all slightly injured. The organisation pointed out that it was the...
Asian broadcasters are invited to apply for fellowships to attend a training course in the Netherlands on reporting socially divisive issues. The course will take place at the Radio Netherlands Training Center (RNTC) in Hilversum from January 31 to April 22, 2005. Full scholarships are available to mid-career journalists Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka...
TRADITIONAL AD AGENCIES HAVE DISCOVERED that search engine marketing is beguilingly difficult. Not only is it more complicated than it seems, but it's surprisingly difficult to eek out a profit doing it. Companies offering keyword bidding tools have lulled some agencies into a false sense of confidence. "Our bidding tool will make search engine marketing effortless," they were told. What these...
New Delhi Television Ltd. (NDTV) has achieved a cash break-even in the quarter ended March 31, 2004. The turnaround in the fourth quarter took place after losses in the first three quarters. Fiscal 2003-04 was NDTV's first year of operation as a broadcaster. For the full financial year, on a consolidated basis, NDTV has reported an income of Rs 68.98 crore and a net loss of Rs 49.62 crore. The...
China is the worst violator of Internet freedom, says a report by Reporters Sans Frontieres, which also finds that Internet journalists in South Asia are vulnerable to frequent attacks because they lack the legal protection traditional media enjoys. The report, "Internet Under Surveillance 2004," examines the situation in 60 countries and zeroes in on China as the worst violator of online freedom...
The Rs 3,000-crore diversified Sanghi Group, who are promoters of Vaarttha, the no.2 daily in Andhra Pradesh, is keen on investing in more segments of media apart from print, and a potential area of interest is broadcasting. The group is set to launch a 24-hour, free-to-air, Telugu news channel before the current year draws to a close, and the objective, says Girish Sanghi, CMD, Vaarttha, is to...
Advertising in publications owned by Bennett, Coleman & Company - the parent company of the Times of India - are often indistinguishable from news and editorial content, according to an article on mid-day.com, a Web site based in Mumbai, India. The World Press Institute (WPI) confirmed that businesses can buy news articles featuring the advertiser, news photo placement and feature interviews in...
For the Dainik Jagran Group, who are publishers of the Hindi daily of the same name, it is not only print, but also television that has a significant role to play in its business plans this year. The group is looking to launch a 24-hour, free-to-air, Hindi news and current affairs channel by December 2004, and according to Siddharth Gupta, director, Dainik Jagran, the foray is a natural extension...
Sandesh is the current number two newspaper in Gujarat, and it isn't very happy with the arrangement. The Gujarat-based paper is serious about becoming the first choice among readers and advertisers in the state, and has already set its ambitious plans in motion. The topmost priority is to strengthen the product in terms of editorial quality, says Kumar Nirmalendu, senior vice-president, Sandesh...
